If it were all copper and the fans were reversed it would probably be a more efficient design. I just don't think the cfm's are being placed most efficiently. A tilt upwords of each sink bay and fan would also help.
The copper plug up the center looks suspicously like the arkua.
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Geeky1University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
edited March 2004
Being all copper wouldn't help. The heatsink is too big. The only thing that'd help it is a heatpipe.
So.....profdlp, why don't you pick one up and let us know how it works
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Geeky1University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
edited March 2004
really crappily
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Straight_ManGeeky, in my own wayNaples, FLIcrontian
edited March 2004
I would say not so good myself, also. First, a cooler like that, you do not want the thing triaangular, too little depth for fins that way. That is why it has to be overfanned the way it is. Second, one of those fans or two depending on how you orient it, is going to blowing in a direction that is against case cooling overall flow of normal kinds. That fan or fans is going to be ineffective, one or more sides will be hotter and uneven heat is a CPU foe\enemy\gradual killer.
John D.
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Geeky1University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
edited March 2004
Actually, the main problem is that it has a heat path that is far, far too long. That, followed by the lack of fin area that you mentioned, are what's going to kill it.
So.....profdlp, why don't you pick one up and let us know how it works
If I had that kind of dough ($95 Australian, about $72US) for an experiment I would, even though I personally agree with those who are skeptical of its effectiveness.
Actually, the main problem is that it has a heat path that is far, far too long. That, followed by the lack of fin area that you mentioned, are what's going to kill it.
Agreed, plus fans that die way too quick and too often. but too long is relative, the fan and flower HSs use spreading out of heat to surfaces that are cooled rapidly. What this HS does not do, which I think you did mean, is to have cooler enough surfaces that are large enough that heat travels rapidly enough to get away from CPU core fast enough. The rods in the Switec flowers are long, the fins in the SLK-900 are long if you measure from core to fan on an angle, but the solid part is way too deep for the effectiveness of the shallow fins unless you use a deep and thick copper ROD and very little aluminum except for fins.
The copper plate in the Swiftec flower HS I use on the slightly OC'd P4 spreads heat outward from core, then the rods are used to disipate heat from plate. In this case, with tall design, most if not all aluminum, no cigar, put a COPPER ROD twice to triple core size in middle all the way up, it would work better.
Actually four things bohter me about this thing, fourth is the height is going to torque on the mounting with spread load of horizontal stress, I am not sure how that thing could stay on and not rip off a HS holddown tang or three or so without a tensioned guy wire of some sort fastened to PSU to reduce stress once case was upright.
Fan ineffectiveness, shaping ineffectiveness, metal used, weight ttwo great too far from mounts, all count against it. Not to mention that mothebroard onnly use typically one sense for a CPU cooling fan, so how would you protect CPU from dying when first fan died from overwork against airflow???
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The copper plug up the center looks suspicously like the arkua.
John D.
Agreed, plus fans that die way too quick and too often. but too long is relative, the fan and flower HSs use spreading out of heat to surfaces that are cooled rapidly. What this HS does not do, which I think you did mean, is to have cooler enough surfaces that are large enough that heat travels rapidly enough to get away from CPU core fast enough. The rods in the Switec flowers are long, the fins in the SLK-900 are long if you measure from core to fan on an angle, but the solid part is way too deep for the effectiveness of the shallow fins unless you use a deep and thick copper ROD and very little aluminum except for fins.
The copper plate in the Swiftec flower HS I use on the slightly OC'd P4 spreads heat outward from core, then the rods are used to disipate heat from plate. In this case, with tall design, most if not all aluminum, no cigar, put a COPPER ROD twice to triple core size in middle all the way up, it would work better.
Actually four things bohter me about this thing, fourth is the height is going to torque on the mounting with spread load of horizontal stress, I am not sure how that thing could stay on and not rip off a HS holddown tang or three or so without a tensioned guy wire of some sort fastened to PSU to reduce stress once case was upright.
Fan ineffectiveness, shaping ineffectiveness, metal used, weight ttwo great too far from mounts, all count against it. Not to mention that mothebroard onnly use typically one sense for a CPU cooling fan, so how would you protect CPU from dying when first fan died from overwork against airflow???
Yeah--fault scenarios get worse and worse.
John D.